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PCSchool has added several new enhancements to the Parent Teacher Interviews in the Spider Web Application.

1. ‘Time gap between each slot’ did only allow a single digit (eg up to 9 minutes) now allows two digits (eg up to 99 minutes)

2. NEW option to create interviews based on Timetable Phases. This means that schools who use a single Subject Period ID and they want to create interviews based on the subjects studied by the students in the second half of the year they can.

3. Option for ‘individuals who can book simultaneous interviews’ has been increased from one digit (eg up to 9) to two digits (eg up to 99).

4. NEW option that will force parents to book alternate slots. This can be used by schools who do not want parents to book slots one after the other, but forces them to book a slot, miss a slot, book a slot, miss a slot etc).

PCSchool allows schools to select which Absence Code / Status to use as the shortcut buttons in the Roll Marking / Absence Entry screen in Spider. The Spider will pick up the first four codes from the attendancecodes.xml file found in the PCSchool\Documents folder on the server.

To change the codes or the order of the codes simply open the attedancecodes.xml file in note pad and re-arrange the codes so that the four you want as default buttons are at the top. NOTE: The NM button for ‘Not Marked’ is hard coded and can not be removed.

First four (4) codes in XML file will show as buttons in Spider Absence Entry.

PCSchool has added the ability to make the absence status drop down list in Absence Entry ‘Read Only’ or ‘Hidden’.

This option can be used by schools who want teachers to be restricted to selecting from four status buttons when marking the attendance roll ( for example Not Marked, Unexplained, Present, Late for Class and one other), while the teachers can still see the other statuses entered in by the Back Office staff / Attendance Officer it will be in ‘Read Only’ mode.

Available in Spider version 2013.10 and above (Post Conference release available in October)

PCSchool has added the ability to hide or show the students Absence and Lates tabs in the Student Information view for various users: teachers, caregivers or students. This can be done using special keys in the Spider Configuration File.

The keys in spider config are:

<add key=”ENABLE_ABSENCETAB_IN_STUDENTINFO” value=”TCS” />

<add key=”ENABLE_LATETAB_IN_STUDENTINFO” value=”TCS” />

TCS says the tab should be shown for Teachers (T), Caregivers (C ) and Students (S)

Available in Spider version 2013.10 and above (Post Conference release available end October).

PCSchool has now added the ability to hide or show the student address and contact information from various users. This is done through two new security objects that can be added / removed from the User Rights Equivalence for different users.

Address and Contact information hi-lighted in yellow can be hidden or made visible.

Two new security objects that can be used to hide or show the contact / address information.

If they have ACCESS PERMISSION to 289 then will show the items marked in yellow in above image.

If they have ACCESS PERMISSION to 292, then it will always hide the yellow marked info.